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Having a clean and well-structured website navigation is key in designing an effective user interface. Drop-down menus are great for sites that have multiple levels of content hierarchy. The typical design pattern of a drop-down menu is that when a user hovers over the parent navigation item, a submenu of navigation items appea.

In this collection are many different types of drop-down menus used in websites all over the web for your navigation design inspiration.

Here are some related collections regarding site navigation that you may also be interested in:

Carreras Con Futuro

This drop-down menu’s design embodies the hand-drawn theme of the website.

Converse

Converse has a grunge-styled drop-down menu that has a cloth-like texture with frizzy edges.

Bern

This rough grunge style website has an edgy drop-down menu that complement the look-and-feel of the website’s general aesthetics.

Ski Alpine

This drop-down menu highlights the attention to detail that the site designer has.

Noizi Kidz

This navigation is bright and shaped unconventionally.

Famous Cookies

This drop-down navigation menu showcases the yummy cookies that the store makes available to its hungry patrons.

Boden

Each menu item has a different font and the drop-down menu is very clean.

Navigant Consulting

The colours used on this site work together like players of a football team.

Fall For Tennessee

Fall for Tennessee has a horizontal drop-down menu that slides out to the right hand side. The menu items that have a drop-down submenu have a small arrow next to them to indicate that they can be expanded.

Mozilla

This is a simple yet sleek drop-down menu on the Mozilla.

Generally, most Web developers, especially those that the user experience, know that a bad practice to estimate using the menus because it confusing, annoying and often are dysfunctional. From design point of view, however, the menu is a great feature, and are to help clean animated design. If well structured menus, can be a great navigational tool, but is a useful and attractive design.

Yes, it’s true: navigation dropdown menus easy to use. The recent study declines that large and two-dimensional menus enable to avoid scrolling and precision, explain the options the user with the effective use of typography, icons and tooltips.

These panels appear for a short time and disappear when users mouse over another option or a normal screen.

In this article we take a closer look at the nature of the navigation menu to situations in which they may or may not have to be used to analyze, discuss various implementations, and finally some good and bad examples of menus to see, for example. The article also includes some tips and suggestions to help you to work with menus.

Position to Use Navigation Menus.

You are used to view many trends in the drop-down menus. The most common ones are here:

Arrange the pages section

Most frequently, navigation menus used to draw all the pages in a specific category in an organized element. These are essentially sub-navigation. See the picture below. A drop-down element contains all the different categories for a specific area of the site.

Organize categories in a Blog

You see many blogs which use a menu to organize the categories and labels. Why? Blogs includes a great amount of information supplied, so that the design must maintain as clean as possible to this content. A menu will ultimately helps together links, such as classes, design elements, how to collect the sidebar.

View products on electronic commerce Website

Many menus on e-commerce websites are used for showing products or groups. The menu is a positive feature that can find the clients; it is an ideal way to organize products. The Best Buy Web site, see below.

Show Modules
A drop-down may be the best way to tuck away obstructive menu, which the user can click on to reveal. View the example below, logging in the element is part of the navigation will appear as a drop-down list. It is a good way to achieve this important element of the rule without any negative impact on usability.

In this article I am going to share some interesting uses of JavaScript that would be very much acceptable and useful to the web designers. These examples are not only Uses of JavaScript but HTML and CSS also. So I hope my viewers will gracefully enjoy this article.

Using jQuery for Background Image Animations

 Sliding JavaScript Menu Highlight

Fisheye JavaScript Menu

MenuMatic

Simple Drop-Down Menu

Eyecatchy javasript navigation menu

JavaScript sliding menu